Gerald Schatten's qualms about the donated eggs may seem as bizarre to Woo Suk Hwang, as some Americans' qualms about stem-cell research appears to an average slashdotter...
They are forcing me to use the internet to access university resources and for other vital communication services.
Where are the University and these other "vital" services located? In your country, subject to your country's laws... US is not forcing you to do anything. Making something very attractive can not be considered "forcing" you to use it.
We appreciate your growing interest in the Internet, but you'll have to continue using it on the original terms -- ours.
Come to think of it, it is all about open-source'ing named.root.
It was "open-sourced" from day one. Anybody is welcome to use their own version.
Khmm, why would everyone be so interested in "their" sex lives? Could it have had anything to do with certain sexual harassment lawsuits?.. Still not serious enough for you?
If it survived for so long, it must be worth reading. Holy books are the most obvious examples, but something like Plutarch's "Lives" should be read by everyone.
In general, works older than a few hundred years, but still known are good and the full editions can be obtained "intact".
It is a sign of increased importance of communications, particularly -- encrypted communications.
Raw firepower is still important, but importance of communications is growing very fast.
Our modern enemies care deeply, where and when the infidels' convoy will be passing or which people can be kidnapped and when. We'd like to be able to intercept their communications, and we don't want them to be able encrypt it so well, that we can't...
measured against violent offenders, check kiters are peanuts.
I'm not so sure, actually. Don't discount the effect, one bad experience with fraudulent payment has on a businessman -- especially on one running a small business. Most of the crap, we have to put up with, when buying on-line (shipping to "verified" address only, etc.) is due to "check kiters" and credit card fraudsters.
Yes, getting beaten up, maimed, or raped is much worse, but that does not happen nearly as often...
people like mega-corp CEOs will do more damage to the economy than the average check kiter
There are much fewer of them (crooked CEOs) too...
But the point of a punishment is not only (nor so much) to actually punish the offender, as to deter would-be offenders.
This simple truth is often overlooked by advocates of both -- lenience and harshness.
If we were to only charge and incarcerate those who pose a safety risk to the rest of society then you could probably monitor the entire population in half as many facilities with 1/3 of the correctional officers we have today.
Writers of bad checks are gravely dangerous to society. They hurt the economy. And yes, that is very important -- unless you are prepared to argue against locking up rogue CEOs too.
The reason this bug did not let any serious crooks out early is, probably, because there is more human monitoring in those cases.
The only sad thing in this story is that somebody got held longer than they should have.
Notice, how there are many more released early than late? Most likely, this is because other would-be delays were prevented by humans -- the prisoners themselves...
it has nothing to do with jealousy and everything to do with not letting the most aggressive nation on earth have control over a critical resource.
Your entire post confirms grand-parent's observation on the real reason behind the controversy. Anti-Americanism. I'm not even going to go into off-topic rant on whether or not the anti-Americanism is justified. But that is the reason...
[...] say China controlled major aspects of the internet? how about North Korea?
Both of these are members of UN. China even holds a veto in the Security Council. By letting the control of Internet out of America's hands into any "international body", China's and North Korea's share of control will only increase.
the problem is, the internet shouldn't be under the control of any one nation or organization, ideally.
It already is not -- each country can firewall itself, and/or redirect DNS traffic to its own servers. Countries and other entities can join each other's firewalls and share their DNS servers. Most seem to currently prefer America's, though.
it's a communication infrastructure that's too important to the future of humanity to be screwed with.
Sounds like the proposed law is trying to prevent any screwing with, what is not broken.
The scammers do this, because they are poor and unemployed.
The victims are white and rich.
The (American) government will compensate them anyway
(The last one is my personal favorite, BTW).
It is sickening, that over 49% (give or take) of my fellow Americans will find these reasons to be reasonable complete or partial justification for many crimes...
Efficiency = 1 - Tc/Th, where Tc is the temperature of the cold end of the cycle, and Th is the temperature of the hot end .
That is, effeciency equals one minus the cold temperature divided by the hot temperature.
For a steam engine, the hot temperature would be the temperature of the incoming steam, and the cold temperature would be the temperature of "cold" steam exhaust.
There is nothing here saying, the spent steam can not be colder. The fact that it escapes hot enough to heat a building, means it could've produced more electricity -- as is obvious from wider-known Physics. There may well be engineering reasons making this target unreachable with the level of technology at the time of the particular plant's design, but I do no see a theoretical reason. "Carnot Efficiency" certainly is not one...
First, why should we bother "feeding the grid"? The natural gas generators can be made to easily crank up and down, as well as to completely turn off. A battery- (and/or capacitor-) based system can be used to hold some reserve of "juice" -- like the tanks are sometimes used to keep spare hot water...
From your response, it sounds like today's technology allows individual houses to autonomously supply not only heat and hot water, but also electricity -- from natural gas- or oil-powered generators. One of this two fuel sources is already delivered to almost all building these days. Is the growing shortage of these fuels the only problem? You seem to think so:
But we have a North American shortage [of natural gas -mi] and the peak of production occured in 2001. Since 2002 the price is up 4 fold. A huge part of the North American fertilizer industry is shut down because they too these price increases on the chin.
Well, this means, that Honda's method of using natural gas at home to re-charge the fuel cells and heat the house is, too, doomed to failure. I don't know which one it is, but either:
"natural gas at home" is good and cheap -- Honda's method will work, so why don't we use the gas for electricity now?
"natural gas at home" is expensive and going higher -- Honda's method is doomed together with the current heating practices, aren't they?
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Gerald Schatten's qualms about the donated eggs may seem as bizarre to Woo Suk Hwang, as some Americans' qualms about stem-cell research appears to an average slashdotter...
Interestingly, last time I brought this up on this forum, I was shouted down by people, claiming such a standard would be "impossible" to achieve...
Tin-foil sales surging up...
We appreciate your growing interest in the Internet, but you'll have to continue using it on the original terms -- ours.
It was "open-sourced" from day one. Anybody is welcome to use their own version.Khmm, why would everyone be so interested in "their" sex lives? Could it have had anything to do with certain sexual harassment lawsuits?.. Still not serious enough for you?
Open-source air-travel only!
In general, works older than a few hundred years, but still known are good and the full editions can be obtained "intact".
I'm still stuck with Loki's "Civilization II Call To Power" :-(
Linux would be acceptable too. Thanks!
Raw firepower is still important, but importance of communications is growing very fast.
Our modern enemies care deeply, where and when the infidels' convoy will be passing or which people can be kidnapped and when. We'd like to be able to intercept their communications, and we don't want them to be able encrypt it so well, that we can't...
If one's work is important, one should not accept the possibility of undetected random bit-flipping.
Many 'desktop class' CPUs these days will not support "egistered" memory. Heck, even ECC is "an option".
And what's with the "unleash" keyword? Do these people really think in terms, that glossy ads use to compare the advertised products with animals?
Yes, getting beaten up, maimed, or raped is much worse, but that does not happen nearly as often...
There are much fewer of them (crooked CEOs) too...But the point of a punishment is not only (nor so much) to actually punish the offender, as to deter would-be offenders.
This simple truth is often overlooked by advocates of both -- lenience and harshness.
The reason this bug did not let any serious crooks out early is, probably, because there is more human monitoring in those cases.
Notice, how there are many more released early than late? Most likely, this is because other would-be delays were prevented by humans -- the prisoners themselves...I too would be tempted to, say, compare a hash of the prisoner's name with that of mine...
And I am not kidding...
And no vaccine...
- The scammers do this, because they are poor and unemployed.
- The victims are white and rich.
- The (American) government will compensate them anyway
(The last one is my personal favorite, BTW).It is sickening, that over 49% (give or take) of my fellow Americans will find these reasons to be reasonable complete or partial justification for many crimes...
Googled. The formula is:
There is nothing here saying, the spent steam can not be colder. The fact that it escapes hot enough to heat a building, means it could've produced more electricity -- as is obvious from wider-known Physics. There may well be engineering reasons making this target unreachable with the level of technology at the time of the particular plant's design, but I do no see a theoretical reason. "Carnot Efficiency" certainly is not one...
First, why should we bother "feeding the grid"? The natural gas generators can be made to easily crank up and down, as well as to completely turn off. A battery- (and/or capacitor-) based system can be used to hold some reserve of "juice" -- like the tanks are sometimes used to keep spare hot water...
From your response, it sounds like today's technology allows individual houses to autonomously supply not only heat and hot water, but also electricity -- from natural gas- or oil-powered generators. One of this two fuel sources is already delivered to almost all building these days. Is the growing shortage of these fuels the only problem? You seem to think so:
Well, this means, that Honda's method of using natural gas at home to re-charge the fuel cells and heat the house is, too, doomed to failure. I don't know which one it is, but either:Which one is it?